Ryan Elwell | Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education
ACT Education Directorate

Day 1 @ 11:45

Moving from AI prompting to AI fluency with large language models

Through this presentation, attendees will:1. Review and reflect on the importance of prompting with large language models, and how a few key inclusions can increase the impact of the AI output.2. Explore extensions to take prompts even further, and learn techniques to better refine and amplify your AI interactions.3. Define AI fluency, and unpack the skills and dispositions teachers and students can demonstrate to create more effective and meaningful interactions with large language models. 

Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education, ACT Education Directorate

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Ryan Elwell / Moving from AI prompting to AI fluency with large language models

Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education,
ACT Education Directorate

Ryan is a 20-year veteran of the classroom, having taught STEM with a focus on engineering and physics in three countries. He completed an undergraduate degree in Physics Education at Saint Vincent College, followed by a Master's in Earth and Space Science Education at Johns Hopkins University...

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Day 2 @ 09:00

Personalising your Google Workspace

So much time is spent on improving the personalised learning for our students, that often our own preferences are de-prioritised. When teachers have a problem of practice, they often go online to find their solution. If teachers need to spend hours searching, creating, adapting, and innovating solutions, why should they have a personalised platform to use while doing it? There are settings in many Google Workspace Tools that are quality-of-life upgrades that can personalise your space and support your wellbeing and practice.

Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education, ACT Education Directorate

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Ryan Elwell / Personalising your Google Workspace

Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education,
ACT Education Directorate

Ryan is a 20-year veteran of the classroom, having taught STEM with a focus on engineering and physics in three countries. He completed an undergraduate degree in Physics Education at Saint Vincent College, followed by a Master's in Earth and Space Science Education at Johns Hopkins University...

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Day 2 @ 14:30

PANEL - How GenAI frames students’ critical thinking (not just does the work for them)

GenAI has entered the classroom and it's here to stay. Luckily, teachers and their students can harness this technology to improve learning outcomes and increase engagement. This is an open discussion that focuses on how GenAI can build students' confidence and critical thinking skills, and addresses teachers' fears that this technology will hinder learning. Join the discussion for insights on questions like:

• How can GenAI tools increase student engagement and set up a preferred learning environment? (not sure what a preferred learning envrioment means)

• What kinds of questions and prompts students can ask a GenAI tool that will establish understanding?

• How can interacting with GenAI's can combat learning anxiety and encourage deeper learning?

Classroom walls are expanding thanks the GenAI. Listen in on the all the possibilities.

Moderator: Sarah Prestridge, Digital Pedagogies, Griffith University

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Sarah Prestridge / PANEL - How GenAI frames students’ critical thinking (not just does the work for them)

Sarah Prestridge, Digital Pedagogies,
Griffith University

Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, examines the areas of digital pedagogies, online teaching, connected learning and self-generating professional learning. She has always been interested in how teachers conceptualise technologies and how this effects...

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Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education, ACT Education Directorate

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Ryan Elwell / PANEL - How GenAI frames students’ critical thinking (not just does the work for them)

Ryan Elwell, Director, Digital Pedagogies and Online Safety Education,
ACT Education Directorate

Ryan is a 20-year veteran of the classroom, having taught STEM with a focus on engineering and physics in three countries. He completed an undergraduate degree in Physics Education at Saint Vincent College, followed by a Master's in Earth and Space Science Education at Johns Hopkins University...

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Shirly Griffith, Senior Director, Head of Jacaranda, Wiley

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Shirly Griffith / PANEL - How GenAI frames students’ critical thinking (not just does the work for them)

Shirly Griffith, Senior Director, Head of Jacaranda,
Wiley

Shirly Griffith, currently the Senior Director and Head of Jacaranda, an educational publishing company which boasts a proud history of cutting-edge innovation. Her passion for education has fueled a longstanding interest in leveraging new technologies to enhance student learning, foster...

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